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  • March 2008 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (A)

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
By March 2008, the U.S. Government and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board had taken various policy measures over the last few months to tackle the subprime mortgage crisis that threatened to drag the economy into a recession. The Bush administration approved a fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Central Banking; Mortgages; Policy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of price changes and this can explain why the size of price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets | MBA

discussing Argentina’s skyrocketing inflation rate with students, Gerardo Lietz notes that they didn’t fully comprehend how it has affected the economy and consumer behaviors until they were in country. “They were surprised by the extent... View Details
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

with the price-increase hammer every time they drive past a gas station. Harvard Business School professor John Quelch offers tips on how marketers can cope with inflation and consumer sticker shock. 12. Getting Down to the Business of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

bonds varies predictably over time. We also find strong evidence that the spread between the nominal and the real bond risk premium, or the breakeven inflation risk premium, also varies over time. We argue that the time variation in real... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Ready for Takeoff

politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

and Finance (forthcoming). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.) Abstract The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

higher than inflation of the competing currency(ies). I also don’t understand how it can be “legal” tender for any period of time since, in general, governments want to control everything, especially money, if possible. — Pete Pifer (PMD... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • May 2016
  • Supplement

2016 Update: Argentina Turns the Page

By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
This brief case is a supplement to “Cresud and Argentina” (515-043) and “Note on Agriculture in Argentina” (515-069). Set in early 2016, it describes developments in Argentina under newly elected President Mauricio Macri, including the country’s return to international... View Details
Keywords: Argentina; ＂ Cresud; Agriculture; Economic Reform; Economic Policy; Land Investment; Macri; Currency; Agribusiness; Diversification; Economy; Emerging Markets; Credit; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina; Buenos Aires; South America
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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

(and hugely leveraged) firms played a pivotal role in causing the crisis, inflating the bubble on the way up and driving the panic on the way down. They were also the undeserving beneficiaries of hundreds of billions in federal bailout... View Details
Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 25 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist

can change the rules to your favor and water has been reluctant to play the game on the field.” He added, “President Biden’s $1.4 trillion Inflation Reduction Act almost completely overlooked water. The omission is indicative of the... View Details
  • 05 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

information about the risk of future economic crashes and deserve more scrutiny from policymakers, economists, and regulators. The paper emerges after years of persistent inflation and mounting interest rates, and amid close scrutiny of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • November 10, 2022
  • Article

5 Ways Startups Can Prepare for a Recession

By: Lou Shipley
Startups face unique challenges during economic downturns. They typically aren’t yet profitable and so are reliant on outside funding—and therefore are especially exposed when macroeconomic conditions change. To make it through a recession, startup CEOs should hit the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Sales; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis; Employee Relationship Management; Business Startups; Credit
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  • February 2020 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Competitiveness; Carbon Tax; Environment; Capital Flows; Current Account; Mining; Economy; Problems and Challenges; Climate Change; Taxation; Competition; Financial Condition; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Environmental Sustainability; Australia
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  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence was slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

been driven by both global capital markets integration and increased cross-country correlations of inflation shocks that determine the real cash flows of nominal government bonds. Therefore, despite the significant increase in the... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future

income, but the amount the University allows us to spend — ranges from 4 percent to 5 percent of the endowment's market value. This policy may seem conservative, but it ensures that the endowment is protected against inflation and... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

http://www.people.hbs.edu/amusacchio/Leviathan/toc.htm 2006 pub Inflated Applicants: Attribution Errors in Performance Evaluation by Professionals By: Swift, S. A., D. Moore, Z. Sharek, and F. Gino Abstract—When explaining others'... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

Management. Taylor and Francis, 2011 Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes inflating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

country primarily using the fee-for-service model while struggling to control costs, there is also a risk of embedding questionable practices into AI algorithms. For instance, upcoding—when providers inflate the severity of a patient's... View Details
Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health